These photos are from April 11, 2021. This time I wanted to dive on the West side (the right side when looking out from shore) of the boulder pile that covers the near-shore part of the sewer outfall.
I reached the shallow end of the boulder pile (25' deep). I swam over it to the West side.
On the far side of the boulder pile, I was distracted by a silty-sand mound covered with a film of brown diatoms. This mound was full of tiny sea pens. I swam along it for awhile (my maximum depth here was 45-50' deep). There were also lots of tritonia nudibranchs mating and laying eggs.
I swam back and tried to find the boulder pile again, but I ended up getting lost around the rocky reefs near shore for awhile. Eventually I re-found the outfall boulder pile. As I originally planned, I followed it out along its West side.
The most common fish here were juvenile canary rockfish. There were also a few copper rockfish and small lingcod. The sand next to the boulder pile had lots of those tritonia nudibranchs crawling around. Visibility by the way, was 15-20', which is the best I've seen here so far.
I reached the end of the boulder pile (60' deep) and continued following the now-exposed outfall pipe.
I reached one of the bridges that was installed over the pipe to allow crabs to migrate over it. There were a few of these bridges installed, but this is probably the only one reachable from shore.
I swam back along the pipe to the boulder pile. Like before, I returned along the top of the boulder pile to try and save some air (it's a long swim). There were a few adult black rockfish and swarms of juvenile yellowtail rockfish.
